Samsung heir apparent in focus after chairman’s health issuesJay Lee, the assumed next-in-line to run Samsung, is in the spotlight after his father, Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee, was hospitalized for a heart attack over the weekend. Korean media refer to Jay as the "crown prince" of the technology-focused conglomerate.

Yahoo buys self-destructing message serviceBlink, a platform that allows users to send each other messages that self-destruct in moments, has been acquired by Yahoo. The Snapchat rival will shut down its apps for iOS and Android and get to work on a communications service for Marissa Mayer’s company.

White House mocks ‘Dr. Rove’ after Clinton comments Jay Carney, White House spokesman, poked fun at Republican strategist Karl Rove after the latter reportedly mused at a conference last week that possible presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton may have suffered brain damage after a late 2012 blood clot. Rove backtracked a bit on the comments on Tuesday. Said Carney: "Here’s what I would say about cognitive capacity, which is that Dr. Rove might’ve been the last person in America on election night to recognise and acknowledge that the president had won re-election, including the state of Ohio, so we’ll leave it at that."